The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-03-12
Cleaned From all rarts of the State

Measles prevail at Shenandoah among
children TO an alarming extent and Il general
fear for the public health is beginning to be felt
1t has been asscertaucd from a reliable source
Of information that there are from four hundred
to tNe hundred children now down with the
measles. II is said from one school room alone
forty out of the ninety children who attend are
sick ana in consequence tine physicians are
complaining OF being oVerworked, while the
undertakers are reaping n harvest. This is
probably al owing TO the sanitary condition of
the town. There Is not a foot of underground
drainage in the borough where upward OF six
teen thousand people reside on about one h,n-
dred and elghtyacres OF ground. TWAS rumOred
that Il malignant case of smallpox had been
discovered in a denSely populated quarter of the
town, but the rumOr could not be traced to
reliable source. However, such is the condition
of the town that the breaking out of a pesiilence
would not be any great surprise to the inlab-
tants.
The town of Mechanicsburg is disturbed to
its very foundations. A dead child was found
In the cellar of of its most respectable houses
Saturday. There is to be an investigation
by the District Attorney. About ten DAYS ago
Mrs Martin Campbell moved into a house on
the corner of Allen and Frederick streets. Next
morning she went to the coal bin in the cellar
and while there saw something sticking out of
some rubbish. She cleared the debris from il
and found II was Il body of \ little child, wrapped
around with a. napkin. The body was badly
dccompoSed. A physician who was summoned
says that the child was fully developed and had
lived some time after it was born.
A house In WllamspOrt, in which the muir
derer Wade was arrested fifteen years ago for
killing an old man, Mcbride and his wife, near
Linden Station, is reported haunted on Wednes-
day, Friday and Sunday nights The sun and
Banner says: "Members of the family who ven
ture into any OF the rooms of the house after
dark are SCI upon by the Invisible foe and the
scene that follows resembles a regular New York
riot. The children are afraid to be in the house
az night and the entire family is in q state of
siege against this unseen but not unfet foe"
"A scaifold at the new Keystone Market House,
in course of erection at Reading, fell Monday
morningand fourteen workmen were prcciptated
to the ground, n distance Of thirty feet Albert
Dorber; - internally injured and viii die and
sylvester NicOllS, Franklin Messenger, MaTnus
Eek, Jacob Gebret, William Setey and G Wise
.hortOn were seriously injured, some of them
having limbs broken and others sustaining severe
injuries Of the BODY, heau and limbs.
Levi Books was shot and instantly killed by
Mary Goshert, at her home in Elizabeth Town
ship, three miles North OF Bricl;eryillc, Saturday
Mrs Goshcrt is a married woman and has two
childi cn, She is a relative OF Brooks, who was o
widuwer, ~ years old, with Ave children. He
had frequently called on Mrs. GOShert.
The Lebanon Manufacturing Company were
awarded contract Saturday to build l. 400 ears.
They have also received orders for six large blow
ing engines and several hundred tons of castingS
Tor furnaces about being erected in Icnncs-
see.
-Lancaster is without murder sensation
after all. Eby Rudy and his two companions
We're discharged Saturday because il was shown
that their alleged victim had died natural
death
The employees OF the Blair Iron Company. at
Altoona, have been granted an increase in then
wages.
"A general strike Of the miners in the Broad
Top coal region was inauguIated MONDAY.
.-lsaac Mumma, sheriff OF Dauphin county.
died of paralysis recently,
. An old umbrella mcudcr OF P;tsburg has
just fallen heir To S2jD,olO.